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Mayor Breed backs ban on pretextual stops but says city cannot unilaterally bar all traffic enforcement
Summary
At a Dec. 13 San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting, Mayor London Breed told supervisors she supports banning pretextual traffic stops but opposes a blanket prohibition on traffic enforcement and raised legal concerns about city-run safe consumption sites.
Mayor London Breed told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Dec. 13 that she supports banning pretextual stops — traffic stops initiated on minor violations when the officer's real intent is to investigate more serious crimes — but she said a blanket ban on traffic enforcement would be unsafe and inappropriate.
"I do support it, supervisor," Breed said in response to questions about pretextual stops, adding that she wants officers to base traffic stops on "reasonable suspicion, concrete reasons that an officer must make a record of rather than a mere hunch." She said other jurisdictions have adopted similar policies and seen early positive results.
Breed contrasted that endorsement with her opposition to a separate police commission proposal she called "seriously problematic": a complete ban on police enforcement of a number of moving violations.…
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